To study fine touch, selecting samples based on how many mechanical instabilities they can form is more predictive than using the friction coefficient, which has been the default choice.

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Researchers in China have isolated the effects of electronic friction, showing for the first time how the subtle drag force ...

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The acquisition could help enterprises push analytics and AI projects into production faster while acting as the missing autonomy layer that connects Fabric’s recent enhancements into a coherent ...

Some scribbles dismissed in the 1920s by the then-director of the Victoria & Albert Museum as "irrelevant notes and diagrams in red chalk" were recently revealed to represent Leonardo da Vinci's first ...